Post-election hangover?

[McPendo]

Re: Post-election hangover?

@Scherbatsky

The bolded part alone is an oxymoron. Your opinion is that we can govern ourselves according to Quran/Prophet but that we don’t have to grow beard or pull up our jeans to our ankles (both of the acts - accordingly to the school of thought majority of Pakistanis follow - are made obligatory). So now because we hypothetically differ strongly on this one example alone, how will the ‘strict religious authority’ dictating Pakistan resolve this and somehow appeal to all schools of thought practiced in Pakistan?

Point is, your version of Islam may/may not be your neighbour’s view which makes it impossible for a country like Pakistan to have one strict religious authority as the ruling party.

I dont read anywhere in the Quran or Hadith that makes it obligatory to grow a beard. If there is a religious authority that makes laws that aren’t substantiated by either the Quran or the hadith then we as a people have every right to oppose that authority. When I said strict I meant it was an enforcing entity on the corruption in Pakistan, not the mullah police! I don’t think anyone in Pakistan would disagree with the basic sharia laws, if they’re explained to them properly.